I'm on a mission this year to avoid business time wasters - and I'm not talking about the great distracters that can chew away at our productivity, like email overload, unstructured meetings, bureaucracy and dare I say it, social media.

It was also kids screaming and squealing at the top of their lungs as Chinn lifted the doomed cockroach out of a plastic container, turned it over, packed its squirming feet down, stuck it up into his right cheek and began to chew away as his eyes closed tightly, his face scrunched up and he looked as if he was about to, uh, lose his cookies.

Some say it has secular problems: it is no longer relevant to younger generations; its usefulness has been trumped by new technology; it is the lowest member of the electronic food chain, as competing media slowly chew away its audience.

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